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We understand from the passage that the story of Andersen's own life
Hans C. Andersen, the Danish author, was born on
2nd April at Odense in Funen. His father, a poor
shoemaker, was devoted to reading and thinking,
but died when Hans was a child. His mother was a
simple, uneducated woman, who after her second
marriage sank still deeper into poverty and took to
drinking in her old age. Andersen, who loved her
dearly, has told her story in "She was Worth
Nothing". His grandmother did her best to spoil the
boy, who was given to daydreaming. After a very
meager education in a pauper-school it was
intended to apprentice him to a tailor, but as a
fortune-teller had foretold that Odense would one
day be illuminated in his honor, his mother
permitted him to go to Copenhagen, where he tried
to become an actor or a singer, but cut a pitiable
figure. Fortunately, kind people supported him.
Thanks to the support and guardianship of Jonas
Collin, an influential councilor of state, Andersen at
the age of 17 was sent to school. In 1828 he
matriculated and at once began to write, mostly
plays and poems. In the 30s he traveled abroad
twice. From 1835 his fairy tales began to appear in
installments, and were soon translated into almost
all the European languages, and gained for him a
world reputation. The full acknowledgement of his
own countrymen, for which he longed so much,
came much later. But it came at last. He lived to
see Odense, his native town, illuminated in his
honor as prophesied.